RHSA-2023:7029 — Security Advisory

An update for libX11 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

The libX11 packages contain the core X11 protocol client library.

Security Fix(es):

• libX11: InitExt.c can overwrite unintended portions of the Display structure if the extension request leads to a buffer overflow (CVE-2023-3138)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.9 Release Notes linked from the References section.